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RACING AT THE

VALLEY.

HOME INSURANCE

SCHEME.

Last Meeting for First Half Season.

Report of the Royal Commission.

PROSPECTS FOR TO-DAY.

port.

ESTIMATED SAVINGS.

the working

Rugby, Yesterday.

of the

1846

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1931.

NEW FLIGHT BRAKES REFUSE TO VISIT

RECORD

KINGSFORD-SMITH

BEATEN,

SCOTT'S FEAT

"I'M GLAD IT IS

ALL OVER.”

After arrival at Port Darwin

FUNCTION.

Car Goes Backward

Over Bank.

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NO ONE INJURED.

VISIT OF GERMANS

FRANK TALK TO

THE PRESS.

LONDON'S TOWER OF EMERGENCY DECREE

SILENCE.

Fine Building in Portland Place.

NEW B.B.C. HOME,

Mr. Joseph Glanvill, author of "The Vanity of Dogmatizing,"

NOW IN FORCE.

Plan to Raise Revenue

in Germany.

SIGNED BY PRESIDENT.

von

THE YOUNG PLAN

HIGH TAXES THE [By Wombat."]

A motor mishap,zwhich might|

Berlin, Yesterday. Some bright racing is promis The Royal Commission OR Un-

have had more serious results

ONLY WAY.

President von Hindenburg to- ed at the closing stage of the first employment Insurance, appointed

that it did, occurred in Conduit

was a man of remarkable gifts. day signed the Emergency De- half of the 1931 racing season by the Government six monthe

London, Yesterday.

Rond yesterday afternoon at 5.40

London, Yesterday.

He dogmatised all the time caus-cree, the text of which will be which will take place at Happy ago, have issued an interim re-

|c*clock, The

ing thereby much disquiet to his published on June 6. The decree British airman, Flight-

Speaking to an International convivial colleagues both Valley this afternoon.

Doo Kam-chun was driving a gathering of Lieutenant Scott, who broke the

of will come into force on July 7.- The programme

Journaliats this Oxford and of the Royal Society. Reuter. Judge Holman Gregory and four world's record flight to Australia Chan) up Conduit Road from Dr. Bruning, said that their pur- begetter of the Scholar Gipsy. A few hours before leaving for consists of

motor car (owned by Mr. Kenneth evening, the German Chancellor, He is known to us to-day as the 10 events which will be split up of the six other members have

[A cable dated June 4 stated: for handicap, ponies and ponies made recommendations which, if putat Lympne at 6.30 p.m. to-day. Robinson Road, when he stopped, pose was to discuss frankly and He was known to his cont Britain, Dr. Bruening and his

in nine days, three hours, landed who have not won a race during into effect, are estimated to produce having established a new record brakes, to allow a private car to enced throughout the world, es-authority owing to something trying to bring, at least, & tem-

applying both

foot and hand amicably inany difficulties experi-poraries as a divine who lacked Cabinet completed the task of the present haif season which annual savings of £31,800,000 on commenced last February.

for flying back from Australia to insurance Britain under 11 days. Thus he pass. The driver got out of the pecially German difficulties over being seriously wrong with hisporary relief to Germany's de- There is no very important scheme, and £10,900,000 on "transi-now holds the record for the stationary car and proceeded to the Budget and economic life gen-heg races to be decided as all the tional benefit" that is, benedit com light in both directions.

get u stone in order to place it be-1, erally.

sperate financial position, and it good class ponies have been sent monly called "old" drawn by insur

hind the wheel. Whilst doing

For did not Glanvill predict now resta with President to Shanghai to await the second ed workers who have exhausted on the outward flight Scott de this, the brakes refused to func- Just before leaving Germany that the day would come when Hindenburg to decide whether half of the season's racing. Still, their statutory rights.

clared that he would not under- tion, and the car went backward they again tried to

raise new we should so harness the mag- the Government's drastic "emer- many average class ponies will be These estimated savings would take the fight again for £1,000,- over a bank.

taxes and cut down the Budget netic waves that we could con-gency decree" for raising the Had it not been for a wall the expenses to the minimum. After verse with the Antipodes? 000. Nevertheless, he left Wynd-|

The necessary revenue will be er- car would have dropped into a the reduction of payments under Fellows of the Royal Society-in forced or not. ham, North-West Australia, on

and the Young Plan by 700,000,000 those days in its first blush of The present Budget deficit is. any May 26, although even then he nullah in Robinson Road

been badly damaged. - As it was, marks, instead of declared that he would fly in easy the chassis was damaged but the they were forced to raise the was

lowering, youth - shook their heads. Here roughly £60,000,000 to

another of Joe Glanvill's must be added a further £40,000,- stages. and the State

engine was found to be in good taxes and reduce expenditure by jokes.

000 deficit in the Budgets of working order.

two and a half milliards marks) And having made this remark federal states and cities, details No one was injured.

in 14 months.

he died while King Charles II. of which the "emergency decree" The political difficulties of Ger- was still upon his uproarious is keeping most secret.] many were most urgent and Radi-throne. It took 250 years to say calism was growing. The solu- nothing of Senator Marconi to tion of the problems, which were provide that Glanvill had been liest and, largest of our music common to all countries, was im- right all along.

theatres, possible if Germany had to rely I wished that Mr. Joseph Glan- on herself slone. They were only vill had been with me the other upon tier of little shrouded

And above, again, rise soluble by the frank co-operation day when I visited the new head-boxes from which the speakers of all nations of the world. quarters of the B. B. C. in Port- will announce and talk, I felt Reuter.

land place, writes Harold Nichol-stilled with awe on contemplat- son in the Evening Standard.

ing those soundless aquariums from which so

many noble thoughts would be cast upon the

within

on hand to provide racegoers be drafted as follows: with some interesting sport, and Limitation of insurance us quite a few of these will be to twenty-six weeks running in their own classes win-year, £9,100,000; ners may be hard to find.

Increased contributions

benefit

from

The smallest field of the after-employers, workers noon will be seen in the Juling £9,000,000; Handicap over a distance of one! Reductions in the rates of or mile and a quarter; it is an dinary benefit, £7,600,000; event for ponies which have not Reductions in allowance for de-

than two races this pondents, £1,100,000;

to intermit.

won more

season. There will be three Reforms in regard starters or possibly two, as Royal tent short time of seasonal work Flush may not accept, as the ers and married women, £5,000,- pony is known to be out of form. 1000;

This event should be won by Reforme in the grant of Gold Key.

sitional benefit, £10,100,000.

SELECTIONS.

1st Race:-

Eros.

Lobster Bay. The Tiger.

2nd Race:-

Mongolian Slag. Misamis Tay.

3rd Race:-

Moon Star,

St. Moritz.

The Raindrop,

4th Race:-

Valorous. Holly Leaf. Wonderful Stag,

5th Race:

Grey Dawn. Christmas Belle. Cream Cracker.

6th Race:-

Gold Key. Jill.

Royal Flush.

7th Race:-

Agate. Celerity. Silver Flare.

8th Race:-

Brunswick Hall, Empress Hall. Thunderous Stag.

9th Race:-

Vamoose. Acacia Leaf. Choctow II

10th Race:-

Sunning. Eclipse Eve. Harford.

MINING INDUSTRY.

PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES DEPUTATION.

SITUATION DISCUSSED,

Rugby, Yesterday.

tran-

record.

He wasn't out for the

com-

"Poltering Along."

Lieutenant Scott, who pleted his flight from Australia by flying through a storm, was

suffering badly from cramp und his machine. He said: "It is too deafness when he stepped from

far and I am really glad it is all He had headwinds over now." almost all the way. For three Labour Members Dissent. A minority report, signed by dye while flying from Calcutta to the Labour members, dissents from Aleppo it was so hot that he the majority recommendatione, ex-iddle of the day, which con- gave up flying altogether in the cept as to some of the proposals re-siderably reduced his mileage. garding formalities, and expresses He was not hurrying, but just the view that no changes should be nottering along," and did only made in the existing scheme until about six hours night flying over the Commission present their final the whole trip-Reuter. findings.

The majority report boscs its

recommendations on the aesump END OF FLIGHT TO

tion that unemployment may

tinue at the present level.

garding its proposal for an

Сода

Re-

all-

SOUTH AMERICA.

NEW TYPHOON.

The weather report, issued from the Royal Observatory at 10.15 this morning, states:--

A depression is central to the W.N.W, of Hanoi.

A typhoon has formed over South FormOSE. It is appar- ently travelling N.E.

Forecast:-East or variable winds; moderaté; overcast and rafa at first, improving later.

The telegram quoted below was received by the American.

Consulate General, from the

Manila Observatory-

To-day 8.45 a.m-Typhoon or cyclope near or over Bashi Channel, moving N.E. E.N.E.

or

Earlier Cable.

London, Yesterday.

Bumptious Stare.

✡

which

tier

round increase in weekly contribu- Dornier Do-X Lands at ECHO OF THE HATRY strains of the British and Ger- masts recalling such modern con- pride. It would seem that the

tions, these, in respect of an adult¦ male worker, are at present from the employer eight pence, from the worker seven pence and from the Exchequer seven pence halfpenny. The suggestion is that these con- tributions be increased to nino pence in respect of each party,

Port Natal.

HISTORIC JOURNEY.

London, Yesterday. The German flying boat, and with proportionate increases Natal, Brazil, at the conclusion of Dornier Do-X, landed at Port Regarding the suggested reduc-her Atlantic flight-Reuter.

for other classes of workers.

tions in the weekly rates of benefit,

those at present in operation are: NEW LONG DISTANCE

Men, seventeen shillings; women, fifteen shillinga; adult dependents, nine shillings; children of depen-

FLIGHT TO CAPE.

dents, eight shillings; child depen Attempt to Be Made by

British Pilots.

dents, two shillings. Thus a man, wife, and two children, at present drawing thirty shillings benefit weekly, would under these posals receive twenty-seven shil- lings.

pro-

شگر

OFFICIALLY SPONSORED.

Rugby, Yesterday.

SWINDLE.

Italian Subject Charged in Milan.

Milan, Yesterday.

the Prime

This vast facade, appropriate ether. Dr. Bruening and Dr. Curtius and outspoken, has now risen arrived aboard the great liner above its own scaffolding and of silence are

The walls of the keep or citadel Hamburg from Cuxhaven to faces the Victorian discretion of double revetment of sound-proof encased by a spend the week-end in London, the Langham Hotel with a brisk plaster. Between these two iny. and at Chequers, as guests of and bumptious stare. A huners of sound resisting rubble can the British Government.

dred windows, simple but obtru-be The German Ambassador wel- sive, gaze down upon the palm paper containing thick wads of Been a mattress of brown comed the visitors on their ar-treea and Turkey carpets of sea-wood. rival, and the whole party then that elegant hostelry, and in boarded the British

"What," I asked, "on carth is destroyer few weeks this mass of Portland that?" "Eel grass," my conduc- Winchester in the Solent, to the stone will terminate in three iron tor answered with pardonable man national anthems. A talk-ceptions as Meccano, a battleship grass upon which eels feed or in ing film was made on the war- of the United States Navy, or which they lurk precludes sound. ship's deck, after which refresh- even the Funkturm of Berlin. ments were served in their cabin.

I was impressed by the Immense True to the motto of not giving sense of segregation which per- The Winchester bore the Ger- the .blic what it wants, the vaded the citadel of silence. man Ministers to Southampton, new headquarters of the B.B.C. "But how," I asked again, “will whence they left for London by are sparing in their use of decora

one breath?" special train.

tion. A string around the second Drs. Bruening end Curtius

That evidently was a tactful The trial opened here of John were met at Waterloo Station by suggestive of the sea. The balus-question, it is always tactful to

storey is pargetted with a motif Gialdini (the Italian associate of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. trade of a single balcony is en- one's conductor to display pride, ask questions which animate and just before the Hatry crash crowd was present. Clarence Hatry), who left Eng-Arthur Henderson. A large riched with similar motifs of

Rapidly did I descend the chip- in June, 1929, in connection with

ped concrete staircases towards which Hatry was

There was historic hand-shak-birds in the air. sentenced in ing when

And above the entrance, imme, the basement. The basement of January, 1930, to 14 years' penal greeted the visitors, who are the window of the Director-General.

Minister diately below the

centralised

the new B.B.C. building is the servitude, and his colleagues first statesmen officially to visit will stand

It do Daniels Dixon and Tabor to lesser Britain since the war.-Reuter.

a statue of Prospero basest I have ever seen. sentences.

and Ariel fresh from the chisel scends three floors below the street level. It contains a drain, of Mr. Eric Gill,

an L. C. C. drain, camouflaged in For the B.B.C. worship beauty, reinforced concrete. It contains only if it be in harmony with purpose, even as they philoscan artesian well which looks like a furred hockey stick but which, rhise without # touch of the effemfoate. Their new palace is in reality, will save the B. B. C.,

their water rates. expressive of these ideals. Stark it may be, but oh! how strong,

Giving Them Air, And when you get to the Colonel Val Myer, the architect Stygian circle of Malebolge you this new concept, and Mr.find bright green turbines and Tudsbery, civil engineer to the vast boilers and glistening tubes B.B.C., have never for one mo- of ventilation. These things. ment forgotten (as architects pump air into the lungs of the are all too apt to forget) that vaudeville artists, the musicians, this building is being constructed the announcers, and the people New York, Yesterday.

the purposes of wireless. who will talk to us about primu- An official of the Standard Oil They have borne in mind that Jas or the Five Years' Plan.

Not only will this air be clean, Company of New Jersey deciares the palace of sound requires to

And it will also be either cool (in that no negotiations regarding be a citadel of silence.

thus within the surrounding summer) or (in winter) hot.` the merger with the Standard Oil

thus Fortunate announcers, Mrs. Duxon, living at 14, Kent Co. of California have been held layer of waiting-rooms, buffets, Road, Kowloon Tong, was the vic-since the Department of Justice offices, and corridors they have soothed and refreshed and for- tim of a daring bag-snatching in- decided to abandon their effort to built a central tour, a keep, an tunate the feet of those who cident which occurred in Kowloon prevent the merger of the Stand- inner core of soundlessness from emerge from those rapid lifts to [about 8:30 o'clock-last night. ard Oil Co. of New York and the which the light of day, the graci- talk to their compatriots. True Mrs. Duxon was walking along Vacuum Oil Co Company. Reuous breath of heaven, and the it is that the light of day will Nathan Road.. Near the Station ter's American Service..

Gialdini la unable to be extra-) dicted from Italy, but the Italian authorities eventually agreed to US. OIL COMPANIES' the British demand that he should]

In accordance with the Air be tried in Italy. the Ministry's arrangement for a

Attention is being called In con- nection with this proposal to reduced cost of living.

Transitional Benefit.

MERGERS.

of

At to-day's opening of the pro- British attempt on the world's ceedings Gialdini pleaded not long distance flight, Squadron guilty and dented all responsibi- Regarding transitional benefit, Leader Gayford and Flight-Lieut-lity in the Hatry crash. He de No More Negotiations to how true! the majority report proposes enant Bett will attempt a non-clared that he acted in entire stricter conditions, including

a stop flight to the Cape or to good faith. He was nothing but quarterly review of claims. Every Ceylon in the late Autumn. The a "guinea pig director, doing claimant would be

required to Fairey Napier Monoplane that is what he was told.-Reuter. prove, each quarter, that eight being built for the attempt will contributions had been paid during be ready towards the end of July the preceding two years, or not less and will be tried out in August. than thirty during the previous six Over 1,000 gallons of fuel will be years, the amount paid to certain carried.-British Wireess Ser-

A meeting was held at 10, workers being considered a recom- vice. Downing Street, this afternoon mendation to their other resources. between the Prime Minister, who Claimants would be required to was accompanied by the Lord accept any reasonable offer of work, AIR MINISTER HAS Chancellor, the Secretary for although not in their former oc- Foreign Affairs, the President of cupation.

the Board of Trade, the Attornoy-The-Independent Labour Party General, and the Secretary for have already announced strong dis- the Mines, and the Sub-Com-approval of the majority recom mittee of the Executive of the mendations, and a decision to Miners' Federationa

oppose any attempt to give them The situation in the mining in legislative effect. dustry was reviewed and the

meeting was adjourned until

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The Times says the majority members have distributed the shock

next week. British Wireless of reform between the Industry, Service.

NARROW SHAVE.

Sinks With Seaplane Off Capri.

SLIGHTLY INJURED.

Rome, Yesterday.

BAG SNATCHING.

EUROPEAN LADY ROBBED OF BANK NOTES.

$205 LOSS,

Take Place.

LEGAL INTERVENTION.

GANGSTER GIVES

HIMSELF UP.

Non-Payment

Income Tax.

for

sounds of taxis hooting in Lang-be denied them. But the engines. ham Place are alike excluded. f the Mauretania, deep down in Within this citadel the studio the primeval clay of London, will are grouped like cold storage throb sub-serviently to bring tanks one above the other. them warmth and health. Three floors below the street Above them all, even above the level gapes the studio for Vaude-panelled study of Sir John Reith ville, that branch of wireless stands a little balcony. It abuts which the people love. A little on the staff recreation-room. It gallery above this studio serves has a fine view right across to St. as a parapet for the claque, those Pancras Station. It is a pleasant listening giggling fow whose pre- parapet.

Hotel building, a Chinese snatch-. ed her handbag, which contained bank notes, a gold wrist watch. and a number of keys, to the total The Italian Air Minister, Gen-value of $205. ⠀ taxpayer, and unemployed, and have eral Balbo, had a narrow escape at least brought the fund much from death whilst taking off in by Mrs. Duxon as being about 16 The culprit, who is described NEW GOVERNMENT. nearer solvency. Their solution of a seaplane off Capri, after carry. years of age, escaped.

the moral problem is a "means 'test,”

|ing out an inspection at Naples, and payment of benefit in such a when the bottom of one of the A reminder may be given of POLITICAL CHANGES IN

BELGIUM.

manner that it shall never be to the floats, fell off.

the final screening of "Just Interest of any claimant te draw The seaplane sank rapidly and Imagino" in the King's Theatre

sence heartens the performers, Asphyxiated or claust robhobic M. RENKIN AS PREMIER.

General Balbo and his aide-de- to-day. This picture has been

AL CAPONE'S “CRIME”

whose laughter Indicates to announcers can be taken to that The Manchester Guardian con- camp, Cagna, were carried down showing to capacity houses and

Esteners that someone at last parapet in order to survey the Brussels, Yesterday, siders the report a drastic and with the fuselage and it was should not be missed.

Chicago, Yesterday. has made a inte.

world. Below them the lights of A new Government has been courageous document, which offers some time before they were able |--

The notorious gangster, Al Above this cellar of merriment Regent Street and behind them formed with M. Renkin as Prime hard counsel for hard, times. But to extricate themselves and rise off In another seaplane for Ostia, Capore, surrendered to the stands the concert hall to the dim symmetrical · lights of Minister and Minister of the In. It adds that there is no way which to the surface.

whence he left for Rome and told Federal Court here the evening in day but a chaos of brick sleepers, Portland Place. terior, and M. Paul Hymans as is not hard," and calls on the Govern- General Balbo was slightly in the story of his escape to Signor answer to a anmmons for non-planka, arclights, and ladders. Thus amplified, they will re- Minister of Foreign Affairs ment to face this politico-social jured, but Cagna was not hurt huasolini, who heartily congra-payment of Income tax Reu- but to-morrow a shrine of glia- turn to their aquariums and Reuter

problem-British Wireless: Service. General Balbo immediately took tulated him. Beuter,

Iter's American Service.

tening beauty equal to the love dominate the air.

benefit rather than to work.

A